WARNING!!!! The following contains the babblings of my mind! READ at your OWN RISK ... hahaha

Event: Cut my right thumb
Location: Kitchen
Favorite LOL moment: trying not to bleed on the potatoes I was cutting.

Yesterday morning, I decided I would make some home made hashbrowns, well, because here in this country, that is the only way I would get some. I washed some potatoes and got to choppin' them, and in the process cut my thumb and thumbnail a bit. As I tried to finish cutting while avoiding bleeding on the potatoes, I barely managed. I washed my thumb, and realized that first of all, putting a band-aid on the top part of your thumb is tricky. So after a few minutes of trying to figure out the best choice, I settled for a normal one, held there by some clear tape. The following are things that have been challenging for me to do with this thumb now, no longer bleeding, but still a bit sensitive and still healing with the band-aid taped on.

- washing dishes is just wretched
- tying my shoelaces
- putting my hair into a ponytail
- putting in my contacts
- putting my pants up and down when i go potty
- locking the door
- opening and closing zippers
- cutting up cooked meat
- bagging groceries

who knew? i'm telling you ... i'm sure there are more, but thankfully it has only been a day and i'm sure in a little bit my thumb will be back to working order. So if you ever want to challenge yourself for a day, for fun, pretend you lost your right thumb, and you will be super surprised at how hard it is! As a future dentist in the making, I can't even imagine how horrible it would have been trying to work in this condition. Guess I just learned the lesson that my future husband will have to be the cook in the family since my hands will be how I make the money.

On another note, let's see if I make it back tomorrow to blog! and car alarms are annoying when they fail to do their job which I think is to draw the owner to them in a quick manner. silly car alarms. peace.

I have come to realize, yet again, the joy that sharing the thoughts running through my head and the adventures I find come along my way, is something that I miss as part of my days. So, yet again, I am back, even if only for a day, here are the thoughts currently running through my head:

- i love broccoli, still am absolutely in love with broccoli ... with cauliflower gaining ground. yummy!
- i very much enjoy the tiny bubbles that dish-washing soap bottles seem to always have
- i just can't read fast enough. the stack of books to read keeps growing at a rate faster than i can keep up with! will it ever change? time will tell.
- i kind of miss wearing a watch. i was never good at wearing them when i owned them, i have one now, but never wear it, too nice for me. it is strange yet comfortable to always be relying on my phone or computer for the time.
- when did my ankles get so dry? it is just dead skin layer after dead skin layer! my elbows used to be problematic, but now i find it is my ankles ... very interesting.
- the past three mornings in a row, i have woken up with my right arm being fast asleep, and as i roll over or awaken, i discover this and get the joy of clunking it from one side of the bed to the other, and wait for the 'tingling' feeling
- i realized i don't have my landlord's phone number, and was asked for it today by some construction people, guess i shouldn't depend on my roommate for things like that, since, as we were made of aware of today, she is not always in town to give me such info
- listening to music in other languages is incredible! INCREDIBLE!
- stickers rock, seriously. i have always been a fan of stickers, still am. i think i always will be. they are so much fun!
- i hate dusting, still. even as i am starting to get disgusted with the slowly growing layer around my whole room (the layer on my plants included), i can't bring myself to dust. . . will there be a limit it reaches and i will cave? i'll let ya know!
- i am very inflexible. the good ol' young days where doing the splits was nothing - long gone! so far gone i sometimes wonder if i am just imagining those days in the first place.
- i love snow. it is so beautiful, entertaining, just a brilliant part of nature that i will always enjoy.

ok, well that is all for now, there are more, but i must get back to being productive, and maybe having a second helping of my cream of broccoli and cauliflower soup ... SO tasty! and i just realized i use the word "still" way too often ... gotta increase my vocabulary. mental note taken peace!

Event: Being taken back to the fond days of my childhood  
Location: Computer     
Favorite LOL moment: realizing what I would do for a red diamond. . .hehe

You know you are a medical student while playing the Super Nintendo game Aladdin when:
- you compare your least favorite professor to the Genie. He appears to be helping you by giving you clouds and cards to jump on and balloons to swing from, but sometime they are ridiculous and end up not helping at all and you die.

- you would do anything ... even die ... repeatedly ... for a red diamond. Like obtaining that highest mark. . . that A..  give up eating, give up sleeping ... anything.

- you attempt to be a book learning student by not utilizing resources you stumble upon such as reviews or more knowledgable students, like Aladdin's rag cape, but in the end, you realize you won't make it through without them.

- after several attempts of trying to make it through a level and dying with the end in sight, you just rush on through, forgetting all the minor details and just focus on the things that have to done. Like in anatomy, you realize you can't learn it all .. you just can't ... so you finally quit beating yourself up and learn what needs to be learned and let the minor details come as they may.

- as much as you hate the challenging levels, you love the challenge. just like you hate the lab reports or minor annoying exams along the way, you love the challenge of learning.

- you realize medical school is just like any game ... there are the easy levels, the hard levels, the impossible levels, the fun levels ... some take more time than others, but in the end, when it is all said and done, it is just that, done. The game is beat. Medical school is finished, you made it to the end. The feeling of satisfaction from both are enough to let you know that it was all worth it.

- you realize you will find help in the strangest places, in the strangest people, at the strangest times in medical school. Sometimes the TA, sometimes students from another program, sometimes a website from another school, sometimes your neighbor. In Aladdin the same is true. You couldn't get that extra live in the cave without that little bat, and that red diamond would just sit there and twinkle without the flying clay pots inside of genies lamp.

- you compare the level where you are riding the magic carpet through the caves to the ride through medical school. Sometimes you got to pick up the pace and go forward blindly, sometimes you got to slow down and focus, always paying attention to your surroundings. And the excitement from riding both are mirrors of each other in the sense that before you get on, you think it is going to be SO COOL! then you start riding and realize, you gotta maintain control or you run into a cave wall or get swallowed by lava and DIE! then you reach the end, get off, and think, that was one helluva ride! and glad you choose to take that chance

Just a few thoughts from someone who just had the best hour of her day playing Aladdin but realizing as a grown up, the game is no longer played as just a game, but brings into it all aspects and experiences of your life. Peace.